Unfamiliar faces engaged in non-rigid motion are processed holistically (original) (raw)

Paper presented at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015, 8-11 April 2015, Sydney, Australia. Keywords motion, unfamiliar, non, processed, holistically, engaged, rigid, faces Disciplines Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Piepers, D. W., Burke, D. C., Favelle, S. K., Stevens, C. J. & Robbins, R. A. (2015). Unfamiliar faces engaged in non-rigid motion are processed holistically. Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015 This conference paper is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/sspapers/1583 spatial cue. Participants classified each target as a word or a nonword by reaching either forwards or backwards from a central start position. A motion-­‐capture system rapidly sampled the position of the participant’s hand throughout this movement. Interestingly, results indicated that the LVF cueing effect emerged early and resolved quickly. These results suggest that the hemisphere’s comparative word recognition abilit...